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For several days now, I have been watching for “dark ages” updates at the Baltimore Sun, in the wake of the disciplinary actions taken against Father Ray Martin by new Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, he of the military ministry background. Click here for the earlier post on this story.
The Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway has, through the ages, written more than her share of posts on this blog about the women who are holding ordination rites and then proclaiming that they are now Roman Catholic priests.
Back in the late 1990s, I opened a Scripps Howard News Service column about trends in megachurch worship and music with the following:
Let me state, right up front, that I am confused and the stories that I am reading in the big newspapers are not helping me.
There are very few news stories that have affected me as deeply as the massacre at Columbine High School. Obviously, Sept. 11 hit the whole country. It still stands as an event that I cannot even comprehend. But for me as someone who lived on that side of Denver for a decade, Columbine remains a kind of small-scale, very personal, horror that stands alone.
There are a quite a few important religion stories out there in the news right now. But let’s face it, there is really only one story that matters to millions of people sitting on sofas right now clutching their remote controls.
